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Next Generation 911 Targa 4 and 4S revealed
Porsche Cars North America has just released details about the new 911 Targa 4 and 4S, completing the update of the full line of 911 models. Like their 911 brethren, the Targa 4 and the sportier 4S will receive horsepower bumps to 345hp and 385hp respectively, thanks in part to a new direct injected fuel system that also promises increased fuel efficiency.
2009 Porsche 911 Targa 4S
The Targa 4 and 4S will also receive Porsche's new 7-speed double-clutch gearbox, Porsche-Doppelkupplung. As indicated by the "4" in its moniker, the Targa 4 and 4S will only be available with the Porsche Traction Management, which replaces the viscous multiple-plate clutch all-wheel drive system of the previous 911 models. According to Porsche, this package results in a more pronounced driving characteristic.
Inside the cabin, the new 911 will receive the new Porsche Communication Management 3.0, which features a touchscreen for simplified operation of the audio system as well as the optional hard-disk-drive navigation system. Also available are the new options of XM satellite radio with XM NavTraffic capability, Bluetooth connectivity, iPod port, USB port and auxiliary jack.
Unique to the 911 Targa is its 16.58-square-foot, specially tinted glass roof made up of two segments--a sliding roof at the front and a tailgate at the rear. The roof slides beneath the tailgate within 7 seconds, offering almost 5 square feet of open space above the passenger cabin when opened completely.
The 2009 911 Targa 4 and Targa 4S will be available in the United States in October at $89,500 and $100,100 respectively. [The Car Tech blog]
Flex Gumbo API reference available
The ASDoc API reference for Flex Gumbo, the next version of Adobe Flex, is now available at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/gumbo/langref/. Adobe will be updating this reference approximately every other week.
Please use the Adobe Forums to comment on the API reference.
For general information about Gumbo, see the Gumbo page.MySpace supports OpenID
OpenID allows a user to create a single identity profile that can be used across the Web at participating sites. This negates the need to fill out the same information on multiple sites, and then need to remember those login details for each individual account.
OpenID has already been embraced by nearly 8,000 sites, including Yahoo (the largest supporter in terms of users), Plaxo, Wetpaint, Technorati, and LiveJournal. But MySpace is the second largest site to join the network to date, and will nearly double the amount of OpenID accounts to a half-billion.
Popular social networking site MySpace said Tuesday it will join the open source authentication platform OpenID, further bolstering the idea of a unified system to carry online identities between Web sites. But for now, MySpace's OpenID accounts cannot be used elsewhere. [brought by betanews]
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Gumbo: next version of Flex
The next version of Flex, code name Gumbo, is now in active development. It is has 3 primary themes:
- Design in Mind: provide a framework meant for continuous collaboration between designer and developer.
- Developer Productivity: improve compiler performance and add productivity enhancements to language features like data binding
- Framework Evolution: take advantage of new Flash Player capabilities and add features required by common use-cases
Next steps
- Watch a presentation on the Gumbo plan (~14 mins)
- See Ely Greenfield discuss designer/developer improvements
- Read a longer description of the Gumbo themes
- View and comment on the specifications
Download builds of Gumbo from here
Milestones
These milestones are very much a work in progress:
| Milestone | Date |
|---|---|
| Product Defined | July 2008 |
| Beta 1 | Late 2008 |
| Final | H2 2009 |
Amazon AWS s3 ec2 / Google App Engine / Media Temple / Mosso CloudFS Comparison
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Free for 500Mb of data and 5MM views/month |
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$50 Gb of SAN storage 500 Gb 10,000 compute cycles |
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Storage $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used Data Transfer $0.100 per GB - all data transfer in $0.170 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out Requests $0.01 per 1,000 PUT, POST, or LIST requests $0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests* * No charge for delete requests Computing $0.10 per CPU hour SimpleDB $1.50/Gb/month |
$0.10-0.12 per cpu cycle $0.15-0.18 in BigTable Gb/month $0.09-0.13 transfer Gb/month |
Base: $20/month $2.56 per additional transfer GB $0.10 per additional GPU |
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SWF Object 2.1 Flex Template
SWF Object is an amazing script for wrapping their swf into a HTML page. For those of you using it (and you should), Oleg built a nice SWF Object template now updated for version 2.1 with supports HistoryManager and DeepLinking.
Enterprise Architect now supports Flex
The new eclipse integration in Enterprise Architect now supports Flex through their Model Driven Generation feature according to Mike Rankin. I love EA so this is exciting news.
Google protocol buffers: Open-source Data Exchange Language
Google has open-sourced its protocol buffers, the company's lingua franca for encoding various types of data, in order to set the stage for a wave of new releases.
"Practically everyone inside Google" uses protocol buffers, states a FAQ page. "We have many other projects we would like to release as open source that use protocol buffers, so to do this, we needed to release protocol buffers first."
Protocol buffers are three to 10 times smaller and 20 to 100 times faster than XML, according to Google.
Google has prepared a download page that contains protocol buffer compilers for Java, C++ and Python.
